RNC ad, was cut, sent out before package failed
Ben Smith at Politico reports that Republicans viewed the whole bail out as a way to set up Demcorats from the get go.
The Republican National Committee’s new advertisement critical of the the Wall Street “bailout” was produced and sent to television stations in key states before the package failed, officials at two stations said.
“Wall Street Squanders our money. And Washington is forced to bail them out with — you guessed it — our money. Can it get any worse?” asks the ad’s narrator, as the words “BAILOUT WITH OUR MONEY” cross the screen. (The answer: Obama’s plans would make it worse.)
The ad, however, seems to assume that it can safely attack a successful plan. And the reason may be the timing: Though it started airing this morning, the spot was released to stations yesterday morning, ad executives at stations in Michigan and Pennsylvania said.
Is it any wonder I don’t trust Republicans? Can even the few decent Republicans around accept the fact that your party is not trustworthy? It is all politics all the time for Republicans. They put thier party first time and time again.
Disgusting.
I’m shocked! Shocked to find that politics has been going on here!
Oy vey.
My New Year’s prayer is Please God rid us of these repub clowns.
It amazes me that somehow you think Democrats don’t ever play politics…are you that blind? From Pelosi’s little stunt just prior to the vote and the crappy pork they tried to inject which poisoned what was already a bad bill.
Lets not forget the blame being dished out by the Dems that it was the Republican fault it failed when 85….85 Democrats also voted against it.
I know Republicans that don’t play politics…I have yet to meet a Democrat that doesn’t. That is what does not exist.
Better watch what you write about repubs on this Delaware Liberal blog, Jason. Some people think that if you hurt a repub’s feelings you should be banned or exposed as a hater. 🙂
The “everybody does it” defense eh? That’s a chestnut up there with “bill Clinton got a blow job.”
What is doe snot address, however, planned to use this “crisis” all along. So is it even a crisis? I guess not.
anonone,
Lord knows Republican feelings are pretty tender right now. Everyone of thier economic policies – indeed, thier entire economic worldview has been exposed as utter rubbish.
Chris:
60% of the dems voted for it.
30% of the repubs voted for it.
The entire repub leadership, from Bush and Mcsame on down supported it.
“I know Republicans that don’t play politics”
Uh, what repub does not play politics? Like who, specifically?
Jason – If the Dems and Pelosi had gotten on the same page they could have passed it without any help from the Republicans.
The failure falls squarely on Pelosi and her party.
Chris is an Idiot.
No one here is making the case that Dems don’t play politics. The case is that the Repubs stepped on all of their commitments to the Administration, to John McCain, to their own leadership in order try to pull the ball out from under Pelosi and the Dems. It was quite the failure and the reports I see and hear are pretty clearly highlighting this business as an embarrassment for McCain, Bush and the repubs.
Or maybe they voted against the bailout because that’s what their constitutents wanted?
That’d be shocking wouldn’t it?!
“Jason – If the Dems and Pelosi had gotten on the same page they could have passed it without any help from the Republicans. The failure falls squarely on Pelosi and her party.”
Let’s see — the Democrats could have passed an unpopular bill requested by a Republican administration over the objections of GOP back-benchers. Yeah, that makes sense.
In other words, you want the Democrats to play the grown-ups, while Republicans get to whine about being forced to stop playing and come inside in order to curry favor with their friends, the voters.
Try using your brain instead of your trigger finger, sporto. If Democrats want to pass a bill without Republican help, it will be a bill they write themselves, thanks very much. You’re going to like that one even less than this one.
I can’t post on it, but maybe someone else can…
how tyler nixon’s hero Newt undercut the GOP and McCain…
can you say fractured?
The vast vast majority of congressional constituents have no clue as to what the commercial paper market does and what the lack of credit is doing to our economy. Honestly, most politicians, Dems or repubs, don’t know either.
Businesses need to borrow money to buy inventory to sell. Think of stocking the shelves in advance for Christmas sales. If they can’t get credit then they can’t buy inventory. If they can’t buy inventory, goods don’t get on the shelves or sold. If goods don’t get sold, people lose jobs.
The government needs to do something to free up credit and fast. The question is what and how much?
“The case is that the Repubs stepped on all of their commitments to the Administration, to John McCain, to their own leadership in order try to pull the ball out from under Pelosi and the Dems. ”
“They put thier party first time and time again. ”
Which is it genius? If they put their party first, why would they undercut the sitting President and McCain, the only hope we currently have left in this campaing cycle to fight against the Democratic Marxist takeover?
You argue that Republicans are little lockstep robots that blindly follow the Administration, and when a majority, not all, of them vote down a bad bill put out by the Adminsitration and supported by the top corrupt Dem legisltors….they are mindless robots too.
Seems like that party hack you are seeing is in the mirror.
Can even the few decent Republicans around accept the fact that your party is not trustworthy?
Rhetorical, right (and you know what I mean…don’t get all snarky)?
It is a Republican setup. One final act of perfidy by a now-expendable Bush.
When we wake up next spring we will find ourselves in the middle of a recession, stagflation, unprecedented deficits, and the necessity to raise taxes. Not to mention we will still be in Iraq.
Bloggers will work overtime explaining “It’s Bush’s fault.. It’s the Republican Congress’s fault…” but it won’t matter. Bush will be gone, and when voters look around, all they will see is Democrats.
How much buyer’s remorse do Republicans have over McCain?
They are already talkign upNewty G for next time.
I poop on Republicans.
So the Republicans voted against a bill, and were publically against a bill, that neither the American populace nor most of the Democratic elites wanted passed, and you people are faulting them for it?
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Uhm… Right-o then. *backs away carefully*
The latest Gallup poll shows that Bush/Cheney still have the overwhelming support of the national repub party membership. 61% of the repub party members still approve of Bush/Cheney (down from 71% two weeks ago) compared with 27% of the public overall.
So, don’t let anybody say that Bush/Cheney don’t still represent the repub party. They most clearly do. Remember that if you’re even thinking of voting for a republican.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/110806/Bushs-Approval-Rating-Drops-New-Low-27.aspx
Actually, the timeline is more like this:
Paulson’s hair is on fire.
Paulson provided a blueprint to put out the fire in a way that makes him King.
Congress tells him to GTF outta here.
Congress re-engineers the blueprint so Paulson is not King, he just gets to play one on TV.
Congress announces the framework of the new blueprint with repub support.
John McCain says Hey he needs a photo op outta the deal.
GWB says Hey I can actually do photo ops.
McCain and Obama show up for the photo op.
Republicans in the meeting blow up the framework because they have not learned their lesson yet.
GWB and John McCain want to know WTF happened to their photo op.
John McCain pouts trying to decide if he can debate after this trauma.
John McCain loses debate because angry McCain showed up.
McCain goes back to one of his houses to pretend he is phoning in help, when he is really taking Lieberman to an expensive dinner.
McCain’s surrogates show up on Sunday TV to take credit for the pending deal.
They do the same thing the next day.
John McCain takes credit for the deal.
Repub leadership is expressing confidence in a deal.
The Administration is confident of a deal.
The President speaks about the importance of the deal.
Except the repubs they all thought they had votes from defeat the deal.
They whine about Nancy Pelosi’s speech.
They whine about other stuff.
Barney Frank calls them chumps.
The leave their President and their leadership in the lurch.
They leave their candidate to try to explain why he was taking credit for a thing his colleagues just torpedoed.
They leave their candidate with his ballyhooed ability to work across the aisle looking like he can’t manage his own damn guys.
The media decides that the bailout story is not as interesting as the dissection of political credibility of the Republicans.
That’s genius, all right.
Nice timeline, Cass.
I like the timeline comments.
And freaking Cantor blames the failure on Pelosi when they lost their base all on their own.
Pelosi wouldn’t have been compelled to speak with that tone if the House Minority Leader hadn’t scuttled the deal first in order to try to make McCain the ‘suspend politics and git down to DC’ in time hero.